Japanparts is a family company established in 1988 selling spare parts for Asian vehicles. It also has a range of shock absorbers and a fourth warehouse dedicated exclusively to this product category.
Japanparts, with head offices in Verona, has specialised for more than thirty years in spare parts for Asian, European and American vehicles, under the Japanparts, Ashika and Japko labels. Today, there are over 29,000 part numbers for each of the three brands.
The range of products distributed by Japanparts includes 140 different product groups for all types of spare parts, such as engine components, brakes, clutches, electrical parts, and suspensions, only excluding car body parts. The constant growth in the automotive market under production in the Far East has led the company, in a short time, to a top position in the automotive spares sector.
The company had a turnover in excess of €75 million in 2016, and exports to more than 70 countries in 5 different continents. Between 2014 and 2016, Japanparts has seen double-figure growth in turnover both in Italy and in exports, and has confirmed the positive trend of previous years that positions it among the top positions in the aftermarket sector, processing orders for more than 70% growth in the last five years.
Japanparts has recently completed an important operation for optimisation of the company footprint: they have invested in adding shock absorbers to their range of products, and in a short while it has become one of their leading products covering the European and Asian car parc, providing results far beyond expectations.
The company’s strength is said to be down to its ability to anticipate trends and work in a global context. It was one of the first to invest in a professional catalogue to be freely accessed over the internet, offered by Tec Doc and the continued collaboration, guarantees a privileged position in updating the data on this platform. The web catalogue on the websites (one for each retail brand), thanks to a large number of photographs, measurements and technical information, simplifies and accelerates identification of the correct spare part, thus allowing operators to save time.
In addition to the search by vehicle, it has also added a search by chassis and by license plate (reserved for Japanparts partner distributors). These systems are integrated with the possibility for distributors to verify the availability of the individual item in real time and to proceed directly to placing orders from their own reserved area. This operation has contributed to significantly increasing turnover, reaching almost 70% of overall turnover.
This update concerns an investment in materials and technology for integration of the online catalogue, with three-dimensional photographs of the products, that make it possible to identify the spare part and make the correct choice.
Alessandro Piazza, General Manager of Japanparts S.r.l., has this to say to those who ask about the company’s dynamics and growth: “The strength of Japanparts lies in its flexibility, the speed of adapting to such a dynamic and quick-paced global market, increasingly significant stocks, and limited costs. Improving these qualities is our main objective for the future”.
